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Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019
History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows
"...1) HAMILTON/JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Broadway in Austin/Texas Performing Arts) The 4-year-old phenom of musicals..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: On Hedwig, Hate Crimes, and Not Backing Down
Plus, Austin's queerest pre-Valentine's events
"...hate crime against Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry, the Texas Lege, or an invite to discuss this on KOOP..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Liz Fisher Wins Princess Grace Award
Austin theatre artist receives national arts scholarship
"...Fisher will be at the staggeringly posh Cipriani 25 Broadway this evening for the Princess Grace Foundation-USA's annual presentation..."

Oct. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dividing the Estate
Horton Foote's comedy may be a crowd-pleaser, but it's hardly a classic
"...received a Tony nomination for Best Play during its Broadway run), and old-fashioned presentation and tone, it's virtually indistinguishable..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Author Deborah Madison in Austin
Noted vegetarian cookbook author Deborah Madison comes to Austin with her new book, Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating From America's Farmers' Markets, in her basket.
"...Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating From America's Farmers' Markets (Broadway Books, $39.95). It chronicles the resurgence of farmers' markets..."

July 26, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-O-File
Vibrio Vulnificus Vanquished
"...The Texas Wine & Grape Grower Association (817/424-0570) gathers in Austin..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

A Theatre Mecca?!?
Honest, Some Folks Move to Austin for the Theatre
"...in Austin Musical Theatre, Richard Byron, had family here. Texas was the last place on earth I envisioned myself...."

July 18, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards
The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony
"...of the Department of Drama at the University of Texas at Austin...."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Stock Austin Gets Fired Up to Go Back Onstage
Cheer up with Bring It On: The Musical
"...Theatre, thanks to a first-time partnership between SSA and Texas Performing Arts...."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Recent 'Rockpalast' Avalanche
"...a preshow segment from Frankfurt, 1978, Jim Steinman the Broadway wannabe and Meat Loaf the Texan. The former's narration..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gifts of the Magi
A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts
"...initially here as a student at the University of Texas, and I came from such a small farming community..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye
Hodgepodge of Happenings
"...pop culture in Ghosts of Grey Gardens (2005). A Broadway play based on the Maysles' film opened in 2006,..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Res Publica
Citizen's calendar, Dec. 18-25
"...to City Hall, 301 W. Second, for citizens' communication). www.poder-texas.org...."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature

A Diva's Best Friend
Stuart Moulton knows what becomes a legend most. Just ask Carol or Charo or Eartha or Elaine ...
"...Bentyne; Golden Globe winner (and UT grad) Amanda McBroom; Broadway stars Andrea McArdle, Karen Mason, and Sandra Reaves-Phillips; TV..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Starting Over
For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm
"...the road portraying the assorted Lone Star lunatics of Texas' third-smallest town in either Greater Tuna or its 1989..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!
Council candidates talk the arts, the people's choice from City Hall's art exhibit, musical theatre training from Broadway pros, and local playwrights get read on both coasts
"...the 2005 City Hall art exhibit, and Waddell's West Texas Beach Ball, sculpted from a piece of mesquite, took..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

For Your Consideration ...
Austin Film Festival Preview
"...In this almost-convincing mockumentary, four film students at the Texas Christ Fellowship University of Appleton, Texas, track down wino..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Articulations
The passing of Austin dancer Tamara Barrington Yaryan and opera star Irra Petina Bussey.
"...earned a BFA in ballet and modern dance from Texas Christian University and performed with several companies. She had..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings
"...3.5 (R.S.) 1/9/98 BRIDE OF CHUCKY 3.5 (M.S.) 10/23/98 BROADWAY DAMAGE 3.0 (S.D.) 7/24/98 BUFFALO '66 3.5 (M.S.) 8/7/98..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Young Guns and Typewriters
"...around town harbor dozens of students with aspirations of Broadway -- or at least Off- Off-Broadway. In a year,..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

`Tis the Season...
When Zachary Scott Theatre Center Flies With Angels
"...though I did read a lot of plays by Texas playwrights, including East Texas Hot Links, which still intrigues..."

June 27, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

School for Scripts
Why Get an MFA in Playwriting? Here's Why
"...of the leading forces in the development of the Texas Center for Writers (TCW) and head of the University..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Super 8
Austin Gay/Lesbian Film Festival's Eighth Year
"...Jeffrey, the much-anticipated Hollywood release based on Paul Rudnick's off-Broadway play of a romance between a man terrified of..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Screens Feature

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger
The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man
"...for a comedic memoir style fiction panel for the Texas Book Festival and it was happening the next day..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Richard Linklater Shooting 20-Year Stephen Sondheim Musical
Merrily We Roll Along his most ambitious project yet
"...so it is with this version of the 1981 Broadway oddity. The story of three college friends and their..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blaze Foley's Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings
Cult songman keeps thwarting his own success – even posthumously
"...Most notorious remain the 1984 sessions recorded at Broadway Sound Studio in Sheffield, Ala. Backed by top Muscle..."

May 5, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers
The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love
"...Three Decembers, just mounted together at the University of Texas' Butler Opera Center, they become springboards to the larger..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'War Horse'
An inanimate steed of aluminum and cane Handsprings to life in this award-winning drama
"...the screen version of The Lion King and its Broadway counterpart; the former is a cinematic approach, while the..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips
Three places in San Antonio to take the under four-foot-tall crowd
"...First, the Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, currently has a special show of life-sized animatronic dinosaurs...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

America's Music at Austin's Libraries
Austin Public Library gets noisy for this music doc series
"...an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Texas at Austin...."

March 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

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